Conversations with RBG

Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Life, Love, Liberty, and Law

By: Jeffrey Rosen

Narrated by: Peter Ganim, Suzanne Toren

Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins

Publisher's summary

"The audiobook version includes recorded conversations between the two from the 1990s to the present, delivering a compelling informal profile. As a permanent record of Ginsburg’s voice and fighting spirit, it’s an inspiring listen." (Paste)

This program includes recorded conversations between Jeffrey Rosen and Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

In this audiobook, Ruth Bader Ginsburg offers an intimate look at her life and career, through an extraordinary series of conversations with the head of the National Constitution Center.

Conversations with RBG is a remarkable and unique audiobook, an informal portrait of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, drawing on a series of her conversations with Jeffrey Rosen, starting in the 1990s and continuing through the Trump era. Rosen, a veteran legal journalist, scholar, and president of the National Constitution Center, shares with us the justice’s observations on a variety of topics, and her intellect, compassion, sense of humor, and humanity shine through. The affection they have for each other as friends is apparent in their banter and in their shared love for the Constitution and for opera.

With Justice Ginsburg’s approval, Rosen has collected her wisdom from their many conversations in which she discusses the future of the Supreme Court and Roe v. Wade, her favorite dissents, the cases she would most like to see overruled, the #MeToo movement, how to be a good listener, how to lead a productive and compassionate life. These frank exchanges illuminate the steely determination, self-mastery, and wit that have inspired women and men of all ages to embrace the “Notorious RBG”.

Whatever the topic, Justice Ginsburg always has something interesting - and often surprising - to say. And while few of us will ever have the opportunity to chat with her face-to-face, Jeffrey Rosen brings us by her side as never before. Conversations with RBG is a deeply felt portrait of an American hero.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2019 Jeffrey Rosen (P)2019 Macmillan Audio

Not quite enough material for a while book

But what was here was delightful. There seemed to be a bit of repetition within the book itself, or perhaps that was my Audible recording. Still, I enjoyed it and would recommend It with that caveat.

RBG

I loved this conversation with Ruth Bader Ginsburg. It was refreshing to hear opinions on various constitutional cases and her overall belief on equality for women, but also that of men, as they must carry on in her footsteps.

I hope more young people will take heart to her message to th

The Amazing RBG

RBG is a remarkable woman, and it's amazing to learn how much of an impact she had on furthering race and gender equality. The content and recorded conversations are organized into topical chapters. There are some repetition and references to law cases that needed more background to fully understand the impact of the ruling. It would also be useful to know all of the Supreme Court justices that served since the 1990s to better follow the shift in case rulings and RBG's influence on the court.

An amazing learning experience!

This presentation was moving, emotional, and educational in profound ways. Her mechanism of turning an issue upside down to help our country see things differently is, I think, one of RBG’s hallmarks.

I call it “turning the Rubix Cube over”. This is not even my concept. It is Stephen King’s. (On Writing) I think these two people would have been good friends.

Great story

I am an RBG fan, so this was easy for me to love. I recommend it.

Superb.

Smart , thoughtful questions. Deep, smart and wise answers. Most impressive, lucid explanation of US constitutional history by two decent, humane individuals. A classic for all time.

A National Treasure!

Thank you for sharing your conversations with this wonderful person! So sad to lose her during these incomprehensible times. We can only hope that when another appointment opens up that someone ( preferably) a female will be appointed and that she will be well educated in RBG’s approach to fairness and brilliance in her job.
She will be sorely missed.

Great to Remind Us Of Were We Have Come From

The Honorable RBG reflects back on big lessons learned and how social change becomes relevant and lasting. I enjoyed the interview at the end with the real voices of Ruth and the author. The narrators also did an appreciated job. Listen and Learn!

Repetitive, but many nuggets within

I listened to this as an audiobook . . .and it didn't really perform well in that regard, even though it was a series of interviews and you'd think that would be perfect for audio. I guess it never quite sounded like a conversation, and I bet the conversational feel would have come across better to me if I were reading it on paper or screen. I ended up speeding up the narration, which I rarely do.

My other criticism is that it's a little repetitive, and maybe could have used some editing so that we didn't hear the same anecdotes repeatedly across the set of interviews. Of course, Ruth didn't tell them exactly the same way each time, so that helped mitigate the repetitiveness.

Still, it was wonderful to hear from RBG in her own words. I picked this book up while I'm still freshly mourning her loss and wondering what it means for our country to have lost her at a critical juncture in our political landscape. I learned about two musical pieces celebrating her that I'm anxious to go find now: Andrew Wang's Scalia/Ginsburg, the opera and Notorious RBG. I will continue to seek more biography of this fascinating woman as well as her own words. I'm genuinely saddened I never had the opportunity to meet her.

good view into court and the lady known as RBG

I think i need a bit more variation in the tone of voice. it was a bit much and sounded slightly robotic after a while. the subject matter is interesting and prescient